Testing, Testing! Berlin Testing, Testing! Berlin

What effect does the city have on your brain and body? In this series of weekly walking tours, originally developed at the Lab in New York, Colin Ellard gathers evidence about the psychological and physiological effects of public space in Berlin. Join us for a participatory tour through Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg that positions you as the researcher, measuring the effects of the city on your own brain and body.

Colin Ellard is a research psychologist and professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, where he directs the Research Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments. The laboratory uses the tools of virtual reality to research design, wayfinding, and the human emotional response to place. His recent book You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Wayto the Moon, But Get Lost in the Mall places the human preoccupation with space into psychological, philosophical, and anthropological contexts.